Henry (Shelton) Brown, III, PhD

The focus of Dr. Brown’s research has been in three areas of health economics: health insurance, diabetes, and childhood obesity. In the area of the productivity costs of diabetes, he has included family history of diabetes, which is a proxy for genetic information, in econometric models of diabetes?related labor costs. In the area of childhood obesity, he has assessed the cost?effectiveness of CATCH, a Coordinated Approach To Child Health school?based intervention program which aims to reduce childhood obesity, among other health goals.

Research Interests – Effects of and demand for health insurance; immigrants and minority groups; economic evaluation of public health interventions; productivity costs of chronic illness.